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Sally Morgan, a writer of tremendous potential, has to her credit a number of published works, the most significant of which is My Place. She has also established herself as a visual artist whose paintings reverberate and reinforce ideas and themes expressed in the work under study. This work has been a consequential text because the readers have taken cognizance of the responded to the historical implications of Morgan's story and relate spontaneously to her ...
The present book contains a varied selection of essays ventured upon as exercises in critical evaluation of texts that are relevant in the existent literary context. These essays are certainly not a random pick for each of the works chosen for analysis, whatever be the genre of writing, represents that literature in English produced by the native writers of a particular country. The two major literatures in English are indisputably those of England and America ...
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, ever since its publication in 1980, has been considered an ingenious piece of literary art and a trendsetter in the field of Indian fiction in English. The stupendous success of this novel broke all previous records and Rushdie was hailed as one who engendered a whole new generation of fiction writers that embraced magical realism as a mode for the depiction of history. The variant mode of the portrayal of historical ...
Since the time of its publication in 1924 E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, often referred to as the novelist's piece de resistance, has drawn marked critical attention, and the still growing analytical interest in this novel is a testimony of the author's "Classic Status" established by Malcolm Bradbury. Forster always wished that a novel could be "something different -- melody or perception of truth". In writing his own novels, specifically ...